Research paper

Discharge planning at a regional New Zealand hospital emergency department: Screening elderly patients for early multidisciplinary team referral using the elders risk assessment index

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Discharge planning at a regional New Zealand hospital emergency department: Screening elderly patients for early multidisciplinary team referral using the elders risk assessment index
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Thesis. Background: Emergency nursing is a specialty concerned with the care of patients across the lifespan. Research has shown sixty per cent of presentations to the Emergency Department (ED) are not emergency presentations; they are classed as semi or non-urgent and are discharged home. Research also shows that ED use among elderly patients is ever increasing and the elderly population is at increased risk of return visits to ED. Effective discharge planning from the ED to home assists pat...

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Thesis level
Masters
Date created
2013
Creator
Carolyn Hegarty
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https://www.digitalnz.org/records/21138667

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